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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Cause they want to win and winning is best accomplished by taking some defenders who can defend.
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Ekholm's relative shot suppression is through the roof, and that's on a team with Shea Weber on a different pair.
You could do much worse than Hjalmarsson and Ekholm. They are the modern stay at home D to break the cycles of guys like Bergeron/Crosby or Getzlaf/Perry.
Especially when you have guys like Stralman, Hedman, Karlsson, OEL filling out the roster, Klingberg doesn't really have a niche left to fill.
Kronwall is the one who doesn't belong. Guy is washed up.